UPDATE
Minutes after I posted this article, the ludicrous Jess Phillips published an article in the Guardian which could not have been better designed to prove my thesis. A number of people have posted comments on the Guardian article pointing this out, and they have all been immediately deleted by the Guardian. I just tried it myself and was also deleted. I should be grateful if readers could now also try posting comments there, in order to make a point about censorship on the Guardian.
Catching up on a fortnight’s news, I have spent five hours searching in vain for criticism of Simon Danczuk from prominent or even just declared feminists. The Guardian was the obvious place to start, but while they had two articles by feminist writers condemning Chris Gayle’s clumsy attempt to chat up a presenter, their legion of feminist columnists were entirely silent on Danczuk. The only opinion piece was strongly defending him.
This is very peculiar. The allegation against Danczuk which is under police investigation – of initiating sex with a sleeping woman – is identical to the worst interpretation of the worst accusation against Julian Assange. The Assange allegation brought literally hundreds, probably thousands of condemnatory articles from feminist writers across the entire range of the mainstream media. I have dug up 57 in the Guardian alone with a simple and far from exhaustive search. In the case of Danczuk I can find nothing, zilch, nada. Not a single feminist peep.
The Assange case is not isolated. Tommy Sheridan has been pursuing a lone legal battle against the Murdoch empire for a decade, some of it in prison when the judicial system decided his “perjury” was imprisonable but Andy Coulson’s admitted perjury on the Murdoch side in the same case was not. I personally witnessed in court in Edinburgh last month Tommy Sheridan, with no lawyer (he has no money) arguing against a seven man Murdoch legal team including three QCs, that a letter from the husband of Jackie Bird of BBC Scotland should be admitted in evidence. Bird was working for Murdoch and suggested in his letter that a witness should be “got out of the country” to avoid giving evidence. The bias exhibited by the leading judge I found astonishing beyond belief. I was the only media in the court.
Yet even though the Murdoch allegations against Sheridan were of consensual sexual conduct, Sheridan’s fight against Murdoch has been undermined from the start by the massive and concerted attack he has faced from the forces of feminism. Just as the vital messages WikiLeaks and Assange have put out about war crimes, corruption and the relentless state attack on civil liberties have been undermined by the concerted feminist campaign promoting the self-evidently ludicrous claims of sexual offence against Assange.
As soon as the radical left pose the slightest threat to the neo-con establishment, an army of feminists can be relied upon to run a concerted campaign to undermine any progress the left wing might make. The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example. It is the first ever gender equal shadow cabinet, but the entire media for a 96 hour period last September ran headline news that the lack of women in the “top” posts was anti-feminist. Every feminist commentator in the UK piled in.
Among the obvious dishonesties of this campaign was the fact that Defence, Chancellor, Foreign Affairs and Home Secretary have always been considered the “great offices of State” and the argument only could be made by simply ignoring Defence. The other great irony was the “feminist” attack was led by Blairites like Harman and Cooper, and failed to address the fact that Blair had NO women in any of these posts for a full ten years as Prime Minister.
But facts did not matter in deploying the organised feminist lobby against Corbyn.
Which is why it is an important test to see what the feminists, both inside and outside the Labour Party, would do when the leading anti-Corbyn rent-a-gob, Simon Danczuk, was alleged to have some attitudes to women that seem very dubious indeed, including forcing an ex-wife into non-consensual s&m and that rape allegation.
And the answer is …nothing. Feminists who criticised Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn in droves were utterly silent on the subject of Danczuk. Because the purpose of established and paid feminism is to undermine the left in the service of the neo-cons, not to attack neo-cons like Danczuk.
Identity politics has been used to shatter any attempt to campaign for broader social justice for everybody. Instead it becomes about the rights of particular groups, and that is soon morphed into the neo-con language of opportunity. What is needed, modern feminism argues, is not a reduction of the vast gap between rich and poor, but a chance for some women to become Michelle Mone or Ann Gloag. It is not about good conditions for all, but the removal of glass ceilings for high paid feminist journalists or political hacks.
Feminism has become the main attack tool in the neo-con ideological arsenal. I am sceptical the concept can be redeemed from this.
RoS
from your link Champagne socialist
a rich person who says he or she supports a fair society in which everyone has equal rights and the rich help the poor, but who may not behave in this way
The neo-cons operate on a global front, not a national one. They want to ethnically cleanse Syria, and move Turkish Kurds to one end and Israelis to the other.
This project is a little more ambitious than hypocrisy. It is more on the scale of the Brits transporting Scots to Northern Ireland. but far far more ambitious and far far more damaging for the Middle East future.
Clark
The principle function of the heart is to connect to Allah.
“The principle function of the heart is to connect to Allah.”
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I always thought the principle function of the heart was to pump blood around the body, carrying nutrients and oxygen to the organs and tissue.
And that any other affairs of the heart were purely emotional.
Giyane, 4:14 pm:
I think it’s ultimately fear that drives such aggressive behaviour. Often it’s greed, but fear also drives greed. Such people can’t see the abundance of creation; they feel that only people can make that which is necessary and desirable in life ($$). They don’t feel adequate to this task of creation and thus feel that they have to take from others. In short, in religious language, they lack faith, and that’s a very scary predicament.
RE: Trident: we are told on the one hand that the nuclear deterrent prevents war, whilst on the other hand there’s been endless, major conflicts since the end of WW2, and since 9/11 we’ve been told that we are now in a ‘war on terror’ that will last a generation.
Go figure.
War is highly profitable for a small number of people, people who will do anything to maintain a climate of constant fear and terror (it’s all made up, folks), and until the mass of the population wake-up to this fact we will continue to live in a lunatic asylum.
Corbyn has said that he won’t ‘press the button’ and incinerate upwards of 100 million innocent people, and for that he is roundly condemned.
That’s the kind of lunatic asylum we live in.
Clark, we cross-posted, and good to see you in these parts again.
Republicofscotland, think of it allegorically. Pumping blood around the body, carrying nutrients and oxygen to the organs and tissue is connection to life, and in this allegory, life comes from Allah. It’s not so far a stretch, but it’s a very different way of using words.
Nuclear weapons are the greatest expression so far of human fear.
An increase in armed police will not necessarily keep Britain’s streets safer from terror attacks, a leading expert on armed violence has said.
Director of Policy and Investigations at Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) Iain Overton made the comment in response to the government’s decision to expand the Metropolitan Police’s pool of armed officers by 600.
The policy change was put in place after Scotland Yard reviewed its capacity to respond to armed massacres in the wake of last year’s Paris attacks. Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said the program was a direct response to the atrocities in the French capital, which left 130 people dead.
Now in the aftermath of the (questionable) Paris incident, its tentacles have spread across the channel, to impose more armed officers on the public on the streets of the UK.
We should watch with interest what other infringements (dressed up as public protection) spawn from the Gallic event in Paris.
Republicofscotland, see how the emotional and the physical seem related to me? Without the emotion of fear we would never have built physical nukes, and now that we have we have truly built something to fear. Somehow we need to break out of this cycle; at present it’s merely on hold.
From yesterday, Latuffe’s cartoons
motto from Dante’s Inferno Entrance to Hell
Abandon hope all ye who enter here. Erdogan’s work for NATO in Syria
https://latuffcartoons.wordpress.com/2015/12/
No Clark
Ok it’s fear that stops evil prevailing. Thanks be to God for that fear. If we allow NATO to colonise the Middle East, through Turkey, ISIS and Saudi takfirism, do you think that will put an end to Dictators? It will merely replace a collection of despots who rob the countries they are placed in charge of with religious despots who use false teachings from the Qur’an to extend their control and greed over the whole society.
I’m bemused why you don’t fear that power, the ability of the mullas to organise widespread groping in Sweden and germany, and organise muslims to sexually abuse children in care.
“Republicofscotland, think of it allegorically. Pumping blood around the body, carrying nutrients and oxygen to the organs and tissue is connection to life, and in this allegory, life comes from Allah. It’s not so far a stretch, but it’s a very different way of using words.”
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Yes Clark I know what you mean, my comment was a tongue in cheek, pun, or sarcasm if you like.
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“Republicofscotland, see how the emotional and the physical seem related to me? Without the emotion of fear we would never have built physical nukes, and now that we have we have truly built something to fear. Somehow we need to break out of this cycle; at present it’s merely on hold.”
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It will never happen Clark, those in a position of power use fear as a weapon against us, it is unfortunately part of human nature to fear. Even after Prometheus bestowed fire upon man, he still feared, what was lurking outside the light of his camp fire.
We are far too often force fed the fear of this and the fear of that. Much of that fear is however imaginary. You must remember that many a ruler has ruled through fear. Our Western leaders aren’t that different using propaganda to instil fear.
Republicofscotland
16/01/2016 5:04pm
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken
Kind regards,
John
Merkel will not survive the pressure from the CDU/CSU and now the SPD, the social democrats who are looking at the massive support for Pegida.
Many Germans have turned against immigration since the rapes, mass provocation and disturbances during new year and it will make for a hard line new Government.
Camerons proposals are now being looked upon with favour by EU Governments, I will try and explain it in ex pats terms.
You find a job in Germany, France, Spain, Italy or Portugal and after some month bring your family over to be together in your rented apartment. (most accommodation in Germany is for rent) Because your wage does not pay for all of you and your wife can’t work due to the age of the children, you apply for in work benefits.
Currently this is possible, but not once Cameron has got his way, he will stop all in work benefits, adopted as a reciprocate measure by any Government that wants to adopt it.
Some weeks later you loose your job and you can’t find anything else, your money is running out and you consider applying for some support to tie you over. This is possible at present, but not once Cameron has whipped his changes through.
What he calls reform is a backward quick step which threatens the mobility of the work force. At the same time he wants the same access for his companies than he had before. Talk about having your cake and eating it.
San Fernando Cal. also has a problem which will not go away soon, methane is escaping from far below the ground on and industrial scale.
The leak is deep under round they say and they can’t do much about it they say. Whether that is true is to be seen once the real facts have come out.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/methane-plume-spreads-across-la-s-san-fernando-valley-a-1072018.html
BrianFujisan
16 Jan, 2016 – 11:58 am
Hello Habby, good to see you back!
Actually, it’s been awfully boring here and consequently pretty quiet. Haven’t seen much of the others either probably for the same reasons.
Now for some fresh air and some sun. See you around later no doubt!
Do you CUNTS think you are going to ha some fun now.
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Fujisan, do you think you owe me an apology too, after your unwarranted abuse to my gentle note addressed directly, and in reply, to my friend Habby?
Quite honestly, I observed you in real-time this morning and I thought you had flipped. But then anyone can have a bad-hair day (and I noted between Squonk and here you didn’t get much sleep last night?), and I ignored it out of goodwill. Please note.
Giyane, 4:57 pm; oh I do fear that, but not as much as those fake religious power-mongers fear failing to spread their power.
Yes, fear can keep such powers in check, too. The capacity to fear is God-given* of course (*non-religious read “natural” here). It’s a vital protection system to help us stay alive. When fear seems to be telling us to control or even kill others we need to question very deeply, since surely, we and those we would fight are all judged with perfect impartiality by God (non-religious read “we are all equal” here). And what does God (conscience) tell us? It tells me, broadly, “defence is sometimes necessary; offence is wrong”.
Alcyone, I think you too would find this book interesting:
The Different Drum – Community-Making and Peace by M. Scott Peck (1987).
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/01/feminism-a-neo-con-tool/comment-page-9/#comment-573814
Alcyone, I’ve found chapter III on-line:
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/fce/pages/16/attachments/original/1419804654/True_Meaning_of_community.pdf?1419804654
Please note.
Tremblling
is that some kinda treat
Threat
sorry Alcyone,
ROFL can hear your scabbard clattering from here! 🙂
How is life Brian? How is Wabi-sabi coming along? Any new work?
For those who might have missed this one (warning: contains lots of bad language)…
YEW CHOOB presents SCOTLAND SALUTES BOMBER DAVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBBc0cMnVhY
RobG, how difficult do you think it would be to estimate a range of comparisons for environmental radioactive pollution from all the nuclear bomb tests put together versus the Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters?
Fujisan, I accept wholeheartedly. I had wanted to interject this morning and tell Esclavo directly that I have observed you as a man with a good heart. For whatever reason, I did not.
Anyway, stay well and enjoy the night. I think you’re better under the stars?! As I said, anyone can have a bad day and I wish that yours ends here.
Reminds me of an old adage:
“We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Just looked it up and it leads me to Oscar Wilde.
Now a little to the junior doctors and why Hunt, did I spell that right, has his beady eyes on changing their contracts to ‘open all hours’.
This brings it home rather nicely. From the Save St. Heliers campaign…
oshh.org/the-connection-between-the-junior-doctors-contract-and-the-american-corporate-takeover-of-the-nhs
apologies, below is the missing K
Koshh.org/the-connection-between-the-junior-doctors-contract-and-the-american-corporate-takeover-of-the-nhs
Alcyone, BrianFujisan indeed has a good heart; I worked with him at Doune the Rabbit Hole in 2014. This latest festival I feel I let him down somewhat; I told him I’d take him to the crew campfire to meet some of the people he’d seen the year before, but then I got distracted or something and didn’t do it in time.